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Ken M Nov 26 Screenplay by Jack Nicholson and released before his career exploded the next year with Easy Rider. The film deliberately destroys the entire fake origins of the Monkees and is basically a nail in the coffin for their tv career. It seems like it was an attempt to draw in a hipster audience who dismissed the Monkees (having Frank Zappa is a clue to all this). Oddly enough John Lennon and Zappa had positive relations with Mike Nesmith who was a real songwriter and musicians like Peter Tork (Nesmith wrote Different Drum recorded by Linda Ronstadt). Nesmith hung around with the Beatles during the Sgt Pepper period. In the 60’s things were very fluid within the arts (Warhol helped erase the border between high and low art). The album associated with the film is interesting and worth a listen (the film came and went so fast, I don’t remember it playing near me when I was a teenager). See more Randy F Aug 25 Head is a surprisingly well done film. They are the Monkees, but stoned. And they do have statements to make. But mostly the original songs are brilliant. It's fun, it moves fast, it's very disjointed (in a good way), and you have to take them with a grain a salt. And yes, being "under the influence" does help make it a more pleasurable film. See more SICKS6SIX S Dec 21 Hey hey we're the Monkee's. When I watched this film I thought I was trapped in the TV set. Shouting I want it to stop. Let me out. I'll get you for this. The Monkees made their escape. I was half expecting them to come flying through the TV screen or maybe the bathroom mirror. No point talking about acting qualities or script. The cinema photography is the same as the TV series they made. Bubble gum entertainment, and that isn't a bad thing. Don't expect a work of art or anything exceptional but the message of the film speaks volumes about the entertainment business. Nothing can get in the way of the ratings. People's privacy. Their family's and friends privacy mean nothing when Hollywood comes calling. See more Alec B 01/05/2024 The Monkees weren't much more than a quartet of goofball musicians and singers, but that kind of low stakes energy is what makes the stream of consciousness, dreamlike narrative enormously fun. See more Dave S 11/20/2023 Before collaborating on Five Easy Pieces and The King of Marvin Gardens in the early ‘70s, Bob Rafelson and Jack Nicholson worked together on the inexplicably bad Head, a truly horrible mishmash of often psychedelic vignettes starring The Monkees, probably the least psychedelic personalities of the time period. There is no plot to speak of, the acting is uniformly bad, none of the segments are the least bit funny or interesting, the editing is annoying at best, and the movie studiously avoids any hit songs by The Monkees. The ONLY reason to watch is to look for cameos by a disparate group of celebrities, including the likes of Frank Zappa, Annette Funicello, Sonny Liston, Victor Mature, and Teri Garr, among others. It's hard to imagine anyone liking this, with the possible exception of die-hard fans of The Monkees. See more Tabitha B 11/11/2023 Ummmmm lol. This a Monkees movie lol See more Read all reviews

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